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Beyond the API: Why Companies Should Have a Presence on All Major Platforms

via ReadWriteWeb by Alex Iskold on 12/29/08

Much has been written lately about the rise of the API. Offering a programming interface to an online service is now standard practice amongst this generation of web companies. Through APIs, we get to enjoy a range [...]

Comparing Six Ways to Identify Top Blogs in Any Niche

via ReadWriteWeb by Marshall Kirkpatrick on 1/1/09

In the early days of blogging you could go to the Technorati Blog Index, enter some identifying terms for a particular niche topic and discover what the top blogs were in the field.
Identifying top niche blogs is invaluable knowledge for [...]

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NewsMixer: An Innovative Community News Framework

via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on 12/19/08

With the apparent death of newsprint now upon us, journalists and others in the business are struggling to come up with a new model to save their industry. One new attempt to do so is the recently launched site News Mixer developed [...]

Please donate to Andrii Nikitin’s (MySQL engineer) son Ivan. Donations are requested to help Andrii Nikitin, a MySQL support engineer in Ukraine, provide for his son Ivan who requires a bone marrow transplant operation. The cost of this operation is expected to be between €150,000 - €250,000 ($235,000 - $400,000). Please help us [...]

Last week, I shopped online for the first time. I want to make a photo calendar. I tried with iPhoto on Mac, but have to order prints from US. So I looked for a provider in India and came across printo.in
Printo is printing services located in Bangalore. They have a pretty decent site to order [...]

I am looking at using Spring and EJB3 in a application. There are few blog entries & presentations debating on either Spring or EJB3 case. I prefer to be in EJB3(session beans) + JPA for persistence configured in Spring container camp.
Some resources are below
http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/32314/0/page/1
A comparative analysis of Spring vs EJB3 by EJB3 in Action author [...]